ICI London is delighted to invite you to the next event of The Italian Library, a collaboration with Italian books unquestioned authority Ornella Tarantola, formerly manager of the Italian Bookshop. In our beautiful Montale Library, Ornella talks about books and writers, music and Sanremo, star signs and podcasts, Gadda, and Virginia Woolf.
The fourth event is on Tuesday 5 March (6.30 pm). It will be a talk on crime fiction, one of the most beloved literary gender. The writer Grazia Verasani, author of Quo Vadis Baby?, and the journalists and writers Enrico Franceschini and Stefano Tura will discuss the history and success of crime novels in Italy and all over the world.
This is an in-person event and will be conducted only in Italian.
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Grazia Verasani is the author of several novels, theatrical pieces, playwrights, and songs. Verasani wrote 18 books and she is considered the founder of Italian noir fiction. From Verasani’s novel Quo Vadis Baby, the filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores directed a 2005 Italian mystery-drama film directed by Gabriele Salvatores.
Enrico Franceschini is a journalist and writer. He has been a foreign correspondent for 40 years for the daily La Repubblica from New York, Washington, Moscow, Jerusalem, and London, where he lives. Among his many books of fiction and non-fiction, the recent Bassa marea (2019), A Londra con Sherlock Holmes (2020), Ferragosto (2021), Elisabetta II, l’ultima grande regina (2022), Come girare il mondo gratis – un giornalista con la valigia (2023). In 1993, he won Premiolino, one of the oldest Italian journalistic prizes, for his reporting on the attempted coup in Russia.
Stefano Tura is a journalist and Editor-in-Chief at Rai in the Emilia-Romagna region. Tura wrote several fictions and essays. His last novel Jask is Back (Piemme) is a crime fiction set in London.